Boisil 1 (Male) Prior of Melrose
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Factoid List

Recorded Name (8)

Boisil (3)

 Bede.HE  iv.27
 Bede.HE  iv.28
 Bede.HE  v.9

Boisilus (5)

 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  6
 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8
 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  9
 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  22
 Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  20

Personal Information (14)

intellectual (1)

 Bede.HE  iv.27 (endowed with a spirit of prophecy)

moral (1)

 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  6 (of sublime virtues)

piety (7)

 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8 (servant of the Lord)
 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8 (man of the Lord)
 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  9 (beloved of God)
 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  9 (He preached the way of truth)
 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  22 (venerable servant of Christ)
 Bede.HE  iv.28 (servant of God)
 Bede.HE  v.9 (beloved of God)

reputation (1)

 Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  20 (the glory of the assembly of Melrose)

saintly status (3)

 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8 (blessed)
 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  6 cap. (holy man)
 Symeonof Durham.HistoriadeSanctoCuthberto  2 (saintly)

stated health (1)

 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8 (He was attacked by the plague)

Office (8)

Abbot (1)

 Symeonof Durham.HistoriadeSanctoCuthberto  2

Priest (4)

 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  6
 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  9
 Bede.HE  iv.27
 Bede.HE  v.9

Prior (3)

 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  6
 Bede.HE  iv.27
 Bede.HE  v.9

Occupation (2)

Monk (1)

 Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  6

Teacher (1)

 Bede.HE  v.9

Status (1)

Elder (1)

 Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  20

Personal Relationship (3)

Boisil 1 Beloved (General relationship) of ~ (1)

 of Anonymous 272: Bede.HE  v.9

~ Disciple (General relationship) of Boisil 1 (1)

 Cuthbert 1: of Boisil 1: Bede.HE  iv.27

~ Successor (General relationship) of Boisil 1 (1)

 Cuthbert 1: of Boisil 1: Symeonof Durham.HistoriadeSanctoCuthberto  3

Event (15)

Advice/counsel (1)

 Anonymous 272.vision of Boisil 1: Anonymous 272 related to Ecgberht 6 a vision which he had seen during the night. Boisil 1, his master, had appeared to him and said that he should tell Ecgberht 6 that he could not perform the journey he was organizing. He should go instead and give instruction in the monasteries of Columba 1.: Bede.HE  v.9

Animal-tending (1)

 Cuthbert 1.vision of Aidan 1’s soul: In his earliest youth, when blessed Cuthbert 1 was watching over his lord [Anonymous 10129’s] flocks near the river that is called the Leader, he prayed in spirit to the Lord, as was his habit from infancy and continued to be for as long as he remained living among men. Moreover, it was also ever his custom to enter the coldest water in secret and at his own sole discretion. And this was the first miracle divinely granted to him, that while his companions [Anonymi 10063] were sleeping and he was watching over the flocks and praying, positioned in the shape of the cross, he saw the soul of St Aidan 1, bishop of Lindisfarne, being carried off to heaven by angels. As soon as morning had come, no longer wanting to tend the flocks, he returned [them] to his lord [Anonymous 10129] and went to the monastery called Melrose and fell with great devotion at the feet of saintly Abbot Boisil 1 and diligently described to him everything he had seen concerning the soul of the saintly bishop, and immediately, with his head crowned in the tonsure, he was made a monk, and thereafter he faithfully observed both the contemplative and active ways of living to the end of his own life.: Symeonof Durham.HistoriadeSanctoCuthberto  2

Appointment/consecration/elevation/ordination of abbot (1)

 Cuthbert 1.becoming abbot of Melrose: After Boisil 1 died, St Cuthbert 1 succeeded him as abbot and long lived there, spreading the word of God and baptizing a great multitude.: Symeonof Durham.HistoriadeSanctoCuthberto  3

Ascetic practices/fasting/resisting temptation (1)

 Cuthbert 1.vision of Aidan 1’s soul: In his earliest youth, when blessed Cuthbert 1 was watching over his lord [Anonymous 10129’s] flocks near the river that is called the Leader, he prayed in spirit to the Lord, as was his habit from infancy and continued to be for as long as he remained living among men. Moreover, it was also ever his custom to enter the coldest water in secret and at his own sole discretion. And this was the first miracle divinely granted to him, that while his companions [Anonymi 10063] were sleeping and he was watching over the flocks and praying, positioned in the shape of the cross, he saw the soul of St Aidan 1, bishop of Lindisfarne, being carried off to heaven by angels. As soon as morning had come, no longer wanting to tend the flocks, he returned [them] to his lord [Anonymous 10129] and went to the monastery called Melrose and fell with great devotion at the feet of saintly Abbot Boisil 1 and diligently described to him everything he had seen concerning the soul of the saintly bishop, and immediately, with his head crowned in the tonsure, he was made a monk, and thereafter he faithfully observed both the contemplative and active ways of living to the end of his own life.: Symeonof Durham.HistoriadeSanctoCuthberto  2

Baptism (1)

 Cuthbert 1.becoming abbot of Melrose: After Boisil 1 died, St Cuthbert 1 succeeded him as abbot and long lived there, spreading the word of God and baptizing a great multitude.: Symeonof Durham.HistoriadeSanctoCuthberto  3

Confiscation (1)

 Eata 2-Cuthbert 1-others.going back to Melrose: The site of Ripon was given to other monks (Anonymi 231) and Eata 2, Cuthbert 1 and other brethren (Anonymi 230) were driven home.: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8

Death/dying (3)

 Boisil 1.death: Boisil 1 died seven days after his prophecy, as he had predicted.: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8
 Cuthbert 1.vision of Aidan 1’s soul: In his earliest youth, when blessed Cuthbert 1 was watching over his lord [Anonymous 10129’s] flocks near the river that is called the Leader, he prayed in spirit to the Lord, as was his habit from infancy and continued to be for as long as he remained living among men. Moreover, it was also ever his custom to enter the coldest water in secret and at his own sole discretion. And this was the first miracle divinely granted to him, that while his companions [Anonymi 10063] were sleeping and he was watching over the flocks and praying, positioned in the shape of the cross, he saw the soul of St Aidan 1, bishop of Lindisfarne, being carried off to heaven by angels. As soon as morning had come, no longer wanting to tend the flocks, he returned [them] to his lord [Anonymous 10129] and went to the monastery called Melrose and fell with great devotion at the feet of saintly Abbot Boisil 1 and diligently described to him everything he had seen concerning the soul of the saintly bishop, and immediately, with his head crowned in the tonsure, he was made a monk, and thereafter he faithfully observed both the contemplative and active ways of living to the end of his own life.: Symeonof Durham.HistoriadeSanctoCuthberto  2
 Eata 2.death: Eata 2 died of dysentery as Boisil 1 had predicted: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8

Dreaming/seeing vision/revelation (3)

 Anonymous 272.second vision of Boisil 1: Anonymous 272 had another vision in which Boisil 1 told him off for delivering his message for Ecgberht 6 in such a careless way. Then Boisil 1 repeated that, whether Ecgberht 6 liked it or not, he had to go to Columba 1's monasteries and call them back to the true line.: Bede.HE  v.9
 Anonymous 272.vision of Boisil 1: Anonymous 272 related to Ecgberht 6 a vision which he had seen during the night. Boisil 1, his master, had appeared to him and said that he should tell Ecgberht 6 that he could not perform the journey he was organizing. He should go instead and give instruction in the monasteries of Columba 1.: Bede.HE  v.9
 Cuthbert 1.vision of Aidan 1’s soul: In his earliest youth, when blessed Cuthbert 1 was watching over his lord [Anonymous 10129’s] flocks near the river that is called the Leader, he prayed in spirit to the Lord, as was his habit from infancy and continued to be for as long as he remained living among men. Moreover, it was also ever his custom to enter the coldest water in secret and at his own sole discretion. And this was the first miracle divinely granted to him, that while his companions [Anonymi 10063] were sleeping and he was watching over the flocks and praying, positioned in the shape of the cross, he saw the soul of St Aidan 1, bishop of Lindisfarne, being carried off to heaven by angels. As soon as morning had come, no longer wanting to tend the flocks, he returned [them] to his lord [Anonymous 10129] and went to the monastery called Melrose and fell with great devotion at the feet of saintly Abbot Boisil 1 and diligently described to him everything he had seen concerning the soul of the saintly bishop, and immediately, with his head crowned in the tonsure, he was made a monk, and thereafter he faithfully observed both the contemplative and active ways of living to the end of his own life.: Symeonof Durham.HistoriadeSanctoCuthberto  2

Grant and Gift (2)

 Eata 2-Cuthbert 1-others.going back to Melrose: The site of Ripon was given to other monks (Anonymi 231) and Eata 2, Cuthbert 1 and other brethren (Anonymi 230) were driven home.: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8
 Oswiu 1.granting lands to Cuthbert 1: Saintly Abbot Boisil 1 immediately made known to King Oswine 1 [should be Oswiu 1] the sacred vision of Cuthbert 1 [regarding the soul of Aidan 1], explaining that he was filled with the Holy Spirit. Then the King and all the English magnates Anonymi 10064 gave to St Cuthbert 1 all land that lies near the river Bowmont, with these vills: Sourhope (?), Staerough, Old Graden, Pawston, Clifton, Shereburgh (?), Colewell, Halterbutn, Thornington (?), Shotton, Kirk Yetholm and Mindrum. And the saintly abbot himself, under witness of the same king, [gave] the monastery of Melrose with all its dependencies, so that Cuthbert 1 might have it as his own after the day of Boisil 1’s death.: Symeonof Durham.HistoriadeSanctoCuthberto  3

Healing (1)

 Cuthbert 1.healing of his infirmity: Cuthbert 1 was stricken down with a plague. But after the brethren (Anonymi 232) had spent a whole night praying for him, on the following morning, when he heard about that, he immediately arose and began to try to walk. As his strength grew from day to day, he recovered his health.: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8

Hospitality (1)

 Cuthbert 1.arrival at Melrose: Upon his arrival at Melrose Cuthbert 1 was welcome by Boisil 1: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  6

Illness/demonic seizure/madness (1)

 Eata 2.death: Eata 2 died of dysentery as Boisil 1 had predicted: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8

Journey (3)

 Cuthbert 1.arrival at Melrose: Upon his arrival at Melrose Cuthbert 1 was welcome by Boisil 1: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  6
 Cuthbert 1.vision of Aidan 1’s soul: In his earliest youth, when blessed Cuthbert 1 was watching over his lord [Anonymous 10129’s] flocks near the river that is called the Leader, he prayed in spirit to the Lord, as was his habit from infancy and continued to be for as long as he remained living among men. Moreover, it was also ever his custom to enter the coldest water in secret and at his own sole discretion. And this was the first miracle divinely granted to him, that while his companions [Anonymi 10063] were sleeping and he was watching over the flocks and praying, positioned in the shape of the cross, he saw the soul of St Aidan 1, bishop of Lindisfarne, being carried off to heaven by angels. As soon as morning had come, no longer wanting to tend the flocks, he returned [them] to his lord [Anonymous 10129] and went to the monastery called Melrose and fell with great devotion at the feet of saintly Abbot Boisil 1 and diligently described to him everything he had seen concerning the soul of the saintly bishop, and immediately, with his head crowned in the tonsure, he was made a monk, and thereafter he faithfully observed both the contemplative and active ways of living to the end of his own life.: Symeonof Durham.HistoriadeSanctoCuthberto  2
 Eata 2-Cuthbert 1-others.going back to Melrose: The site of Ripon was given to other monks (Anonymi 231) and Eata 2, Cuthbert 1 and other brethren (Anonymi 230) were driven home.: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8

Monastic life, converting to/joining/oblation (2)

 Cuthbert 1.tonsure at Melrose: A few days after Cuthbert 1's arrival at Melrose, Eata 2 arrived. Boisil 1 told him about Cuthbert 1's intentions and obtained permission from him for Cuthbert 1 to receive the tonsure and to join the fellowship of the brethren.: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  6
 Cuthbert 1.vision of Aidan 1’s soul: In his earliest youth, when blessed Cuthbert 1 was watching over his lord [Anonymous 10129’s] flocks near the river that is called the Leader, he prayed in spirit to the Lord, as was his habit from infancy and continued to be for as long as he remained living among men. Moreover, it was also ever his custom to enter the coldest water in secret and at his own sole discretion. And this was the first miracle divinely granted to him, that while his companions [Anonymi 10063] were sleeping and he was watching over the flocks and praying, positioned in the shape of the cross, he saw the soul of St Aidan 1, bishop of Lindisfarne, being carried off to heaven by angels. As soon as morning had come, no longer wanting to tend the flocks, he returned [them] to his lord [Anonymous 10129] and went to the monastery called Melrose and fell with great devotion at the feet of saintly Abbot Boisil 1 and diligently described to him everything he had seen concerning the soul of the saintly bishop, and immediately, with his head crowned in the tonsure, he was made a monk, and thereafter he faithfully observed both the contemplative and active ways of living to the end of his own life.: Symeonof Durham.HistoriadeSanctoCuthberto  2

Ordering (1)

 Anonymous 272.second vision of Boisil 1: Anonymous 272 had another vision in which Boisil 1 told him off for delivering his message for Ecgberht 6 in such a careless way. Then Boisil 1 repeated that, whether Ecgberht 6 liked it or not, he had to go to Columba 1's monasteries and call them back to the true line.: Bede.HE  v.9

Pastoral activities/preaching (1)

 Cuthbert 1.becoming abbot of Melrose: After Boisil 1 died, St Cuthbert 1 succeeded him as abbot and long lived there, spreading the word of God and baptizing a great multitude.: Symeonof Durham.HistoriadeSanctoCuthberto  3

Praying (2)

 Cuthbert 1.healing of his infirmity: Cuthbert 1 was stricken down with a plague. But after the brethren (Anonymi 232) had spent a whole night praying for him, on the following morning, when he heard about that, he immediately arose and began to try to walk. As his strength grew from day to day, he recovered his health.: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8
 Cuthbert 1.vision of Aidan 1’s soul: In his earliest youth, when blessed Cuthbert 1 was watching over his lord [Anonymous 10129’s] flocks near the river that is called the Leader, he prayed in spirit to the Lord, as was his habit from infancy and continued to be for as long as he remained living among men. Moreover, it was also ever his custom to enter the coldest water in secret and at his own sole discretion. And this was the first miracle divinely granted to him, that while his companions [Anonymi 10063] were sleeping and he was watching over the flocks and praying, positioned in the shape of the cross, he saw the soul of St Aidan 1, bishop of Lindisfarne, being carried off to heaven by angels. As soon as morning had come, no longer wanting to tend the flocks, he returned [them] to his lord [Anonymous 10129] and went to the monastery called Melrose and fell with great devotion at the feet of saintly Abbot Boisil 1 and diligently described to him everything he had seen concerning the soul of the saintly bishop, and immediately, with his head crowned in the tonsure, he was made a monk, and thereafter he faithfully observed both the contemplative and active ways of living to the end of his own life.: Symeonof Durham.HistoriadeSanctoCuthberto  2

Prophecy (5)

 Anonymous 272.vision of Boisil 1: Anonymous 272 related to Ecgberht 6 a vision which he had seen during the night. Boisil 1, his master, had appeared to him and said that he should tell Ecgberht 6 that he could not perform the journey he was organizing. He should go instead and give instruction in the monasteries of Columba 1.: Bede.HE  v.9
 Boisil 1.prophecies on pestilence: Boisil 1 predicted that Cuthbert 1 would not die from the pestilence, whereas he himself would in seven days. He had also predicted the pestilence to his abbot Eata 2 three years before it appeared, but he declared that the abbot himself would not die of this but rather of dysentery.: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8
 Boisil 1.prophecy on Cuthbert 1’s bishopric: Boisil 1 foretold all that was to happen to Cuthbert 1.: Bede.HE  iv.28
 Boisil 1.prophecy on Cuthbert 1’s episcopate: Boisil 1 prophesied that Cuthbert 1 was to become a bishop: Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  20
 Boisil 1.prophecy on episcopate of Cuthbert 1: Boisil 1 suggested to Cuthbert 1 that he would be made bishop.: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8, 22

Reporting (1)

 Anonymous 272.vision of Boisil 1: Anonymous 272 related to Ecgberht 6 a vision which he had seen during the night. Boisil 1, his master, had appeared to him and said that he should tell Ecgberht 6 that he could not perform the journey he was organizing. He should go instead and give instruction in the monasteries of Columba 1.: Bede.HE  v.9

Tonsuring (2)

 Cuthbert 1.tonsure at Melrose: A few days after Cuthbert 1's arrival at Melrose, Eata 2 arrived. Boisil 1 told him about Cuthbert 1's intentions and obtained permission from him for Cuthbert 1 to receive the tonsure and to join the fellowship of the brethren.: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  6
 Cuthbert 1.vision of Aidan 1’s soul: In his earliest youth, when blessed Cuthbert 1 was watching over his lord [Anonymous 10129’s] flocks near the river that is called the Leader, he prayed in spirit to the Lord, as was his habit from infancy and continued to be for as long as he remained living among men. Moreover, it was also ever his custom to enter the coldest water in secret and at his own sole discretion. And this was the first miracle divinely granted to him, that while his companions [Anonymi 10063] were sleeping and he was watching over the flocks and praying, positioned in the shape of the cross, he saw the soul of St Aidan 1, bishop of Lindisfarne, being carried off to heaven by angels. As soon as morning had come, no longer wanting to tend the flocks, he returned [them] to his lord [Anonymous 10129] and went to the monastery called Melrose and fell with great devotion at the feet of saintly Abbot Boisil 1 and diligently described to him everything he had seen concerning the soul of the saintly bishop, and immediately, with his head crowned in the tonsure, he was made a monk, and thereafter he faithfully observed both the contemplative and active ways of living to the end of his own life.: Symeonof Durham.HistoriadeSanctoCuthberto  2

Factoids linked indirectly to Boisil 1 (4)

Education (3)

 Cuthbert 1: In seven days Cuthbert went through the book of the evangelist John with Boisil 1: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  8
 Cuthbert 1: Boisil brought Cuthbert up: Bede.VitCuthbertiPr  22
 Cuthbert 1: He received from Boisil 1 a knowledge of the Scriptures and the example of good works: Bede.HE  iv.27

Occupation (1)

Servant of Boisil 1 (1)

 Anonymous 272: Bede.HE  v.9